Goat tops self in Canadian zoo

Swingball presents choking hazard

A Turkmenian markhor shuffled off its mortal coil last Friday when it became entangled in an “enrichment toy”. Staff at Calgary Zoo were alerted to the unfolding drama by a horrified visitor, but were slow to grasp the seriousness of the incident, telling Aubrey Williams: “Oh, they do that all the time”.

The endangered Himalayan goat had leaped from a log in its enclosure, strangling itself with a rope in the process. Medics were unable to save the animal, despite administering “mouth-to-nose resuscitation and CPR”.

With all that’s going on in the world — war, economic meltdown, a new US adminstration — the British public’s appetite for trivialities remains undiminished. The “most viewed” video at the BBC is currently a story about a hen that laid a giant egg. Long may it continue.

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